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Material Selections by a Hybrid Multi-Criteria Approach
This Brief presents a new method that is based on the author and his students’ shared experience in applying a structured procedure that has as its main goal the creation of a material selection technique that uses language and employs a platform that is not restricted to engineers. Based on a hybrid approach that exploits both traditional and semi-quantitative concepts, it moves forward step…
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- 978-3-319-13030-9
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New Trends in Image Analysis and Processing -- ICIAP 2015 Workshops
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of seven workshops held at the 18th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2015, in Genoa, Italy, in September 2015: International Workshop on Recent Advances in Digital Security: Biometrics and Forensics, BioFor 2015; International Workshop on Color in Texture and Material Recognition, CTMR 2015; International Workshop on…
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- 0302-9743
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- XXVII, 599
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Advances in Water Distribution Networks
The Special Issue on Advances in Water Distribution Networks (WDNs) explores four important topics of research in the framework of WDNs, namely simulation and optimization modelling, topology and partitioning, water quality, and service effectiveness. With regard to the first topic, the following aspects are addressed: pressure-driven formulations, algorithms for the optimal location of control…
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- 978-3-03897-557-1
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- 628 ADV
Reduced Basis Methods for Partial Differential Equations: An Introduction
This book provides a basic introduction to reduced basis (RB) methods for problems involving the repeated solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) arising from engineering and applied sciences, such as PDEs depending on several parameters and PDE-constrained optimization. The book presents a general mathematical formulation of RB methods, analyzes their fundamental theoretical prop…
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- 978-3-319-15431-2
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- 515.35
Discrete calculus : methods for counting
This book provides an introduction to combinatorics, finite calculus, formal series, recurrences, and approximations of sums. Readers will find not only coverage of the basic elements of the subjects but also deep insights into a range of less common topics rarely considered within a single book, such as counting with occupancy constraints, a clear distinction between algebraic and analytical p…
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- 9783319030388
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- xxi, 659 pages
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Non-Ordinary Mental Expressions
So-called altered states of consciousness (ASC) are an intriguing, still under-researched topic, with profound neuropsychological and epistemological implications. In the last few decades there has been increasing multidisciplinary interest in consciousness and ASC, a term encompassing a wide range of pathological and non-pathological conditions, including dreaming, near-death experiences (NDEs…
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- 978-2-88919-485-8
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- 613 NON
Metabolic Syndrome and Complications of Pregnancy
This book explores the nature of pregnancy and metabolic syndrome as proinflammatory conditions and explains how pregnancy provides a window of opportunity for preventing the lifelong complications of metabolic syndrome, during which key risk factors can be identified and beneficial dietary changes can be implemented. The book’s opening sections discuss inflammation in the context of pregn…
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- 978-3-319-16852-4
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- X, 238
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Valuing Banks A New Corporate Finance Approach
This book aims to overcome the limitations the variations in bank-specifics impose by providing a bank-specific valuation theoretical framework and a new asset-side model. The book includes also a constructive comparison of equity and asset side methods. The authors present a novel framework entitled, the “Asset Mark-down Model”. This method incorporates an Adjusted Present Value model, whi…
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- 978-1-137-56142-8
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- 19 b/w illustrations
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Solid State Lasers Materials, Technologies and Applications
Solid-state lasers offer unique qualities in terms of flexibility, robustness, efficiency, and wavelength diversity. For these reasons, they are nowadays irreplaceable tools in many scientific and industrial applications. The engineering of new materials, the advances in photonics technologies, and the increasing demand for speed, cleanliness, and high-precision in industrial processes contribu…
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- 978-3-03842-842-8
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- 537 SOL
Recent Advances in Systems Safety and Security
This book represents a timely overview of advances in systems safety and security, based on selected, revised and extended contributions from the 2nd and 3rd editions of the International Workshop on Systems Safety and Security – IWSSS, held in 2014 and 2015, respectively, in Bucharest, Romania. It includes 14 chapters, co-authored by 34 researchers from 7 countries. The book provides an usef…
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